Music-Instruction & Study-Composition

Author: Willi ApelISBN-10: 1849028052ISBN-13: 9781849028059Publisher: Benediction ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2010Pages: 518Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.15d

Music Theory and Composition: A Practical Approachpresents a pragmatic, accessible approach to music theory through an emphasis on melody and counterpoint. This focus explains the "why" of musical construction more clearly than the traditional approach of beginning with chords. By starting with a single...

Creative Orchestration by American Composer George Frederick McKay (1899-1970) is highly regarded in academic circles for its direct and uncomplicated approach based on McKay's 40 years of teaching music theory at the University of Washington, Seattle while using experiential methods with small groups of...

(Criterion). Used by leading universities for courses in Practical Arranging and Composing in the professional field. Endorsed by leading music educators, composers, and arrangers.Author: Russell GarciaISBN-10: 1458423794ISBN-13: 9781458423795Publisher: CriterionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2008Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.50w x 0.50d

Recommended by winners of the Academy, Grammy, and Emmy Awards, Professional Orchestration is the first multi-volume series in orchestration from an American Publisher that teaches the devices and orchestral combinations which, before now, have been known by only a privileged few. It's also the...

In this new text, designed to follow SCALES, INTERVALS, KEYS, TRIADS, RHYTHMS, AND METER by the same authors, the procedures of programmed instruction are utilized to promote the student's mastery of part-writing fundamentals and understanding of the basic concepts of harmonic progression.Author: John CloughISBN-10:...

(Manuscript Paper). This collection of manuscript paper for ukulele features 80 perforated pages. Each page features 7 tab staves and 8 chord diagrams, and a music tablature guide is also included.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 1705140351ISBN-13: 9781705140352Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2021Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Composing with Constraints: 100 Practical Exercises in Music Composition provides an innovative approach to the instruction of the craft of music composition based on tailored exercises to help students develop their creativity. When composition is condensed to a series of logical steps, it can...

With the ongoing development of algorithmic composition programs and communities of practice expanding, algorithmic music faces a turning point. Joining dozens of emerging and established scholars alongside leading practitioners in the field, chapters in this Handbook both describe the state of algorithmic composition and...

Author: Stephen RoseISBN-10: 1108431283ISBN-13: 9781108431286Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2021Pages: 259Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.55d

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music describes the collaborative interaction of internationally acclaimed composer Roger Reynolds, musician Karen Reynolds, and musically inspired composer, engineer, and architect Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) to create a house design, The Reynolds Desert House. The process combined aesthetics and intuition...

While the role of a producer is constantly evolving in relation to music, time, and technological transitions and updates, there are proven similarities throughout all musical productions regarding processes and workflow management.In this practical and highly accessible guide, Josh Bess breaks music production down...

Jazz Composition and Arranging In the Digital Age is a comprehensive and practical instructional book and reference guide on the art and craft of jazz composition and arranging for small and large ensembles. In this book, veteran composers and arrangers Richard Sussman and Michael...

Fresh Music: Explorations with the Creative Workshop Ensemble for Musicians, Artists, and Teachers chronicles 40 years of the Creative Workshop Ensemble(CreW) at the Berklee College of Music and internationally. The book provides refreshing alternatives and immerses and engages the reader in real and practical...

With nearly 400 scores to his credit, Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific and influential film composers working today. He has collaborated with many significant directors, and his scores for such films as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Once Upon...

(Carta Manuscript Paper). 26 stave score pad, 12x18, 40 sheets, includes Orchestral Range/Transposition Chart.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 0793557887ISBN-13: 9780793557882Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1997Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 17.80h x 11.80w x 0.40d

Arranging for the Concert Band and the separately available workbook are intended to introduce students to basic techniques of arranging for the concert band. Arranging can be divided into two separate processes. The first deals with scoring and transcribing. Scoring is concerned with such...

This elementary book introduces students to the art of original composition. It features the following composition tools: melodic shaping, phrasing, octave displacement, accidentals, major chords, minor chords, articulation, tempo changes, motif, and form. This is hands-down THE BEST step-by-step guide for teaching and learning...

This book is for anyone who writes, plays or listens to jazz. It explains the writing process and the construction of jazz pieces. I've attempted to answer many of the questions that arrangers and composers ask themselves when they are writing. Players who read...

The Trait de l'harmonie of Jen-Philippe Rameau is one of the most important books in the history of Western music. Written while Rameau was still a relatively obscure organist and music master at Clermont-Ferrand, the book received but one printing during Rameau's life, in...

Music manuscript book. 96 pages of blank staff paper. 12 staves per page. Includes music reference charts.Author: Em Music PublishingISBN-10: 1512227862ISBN-13: 9781512227864Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2015Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.21d

The Comprehensive Book of Modes and Scales for Piano and Keyboard Players was written specifically for classically trained pianists with little knowledge of scales. This book contains over 70 scales and modes including major, minor, jazz modes, pentatonic, bebop, octatonic, exotic, synthetic scales, etc....

"GarageBand 11 - How it Works" from the GEM series (Graphically Enhanced Manuals) explains Apple's popular music production application "GarageBand" with rich illustrations and diagrams that are not found in any other manual. This 161 pages letter size book presents this software application in...

As the movie and music industries have changed, film scoring has become an overwhelmingly independent process. Film composers have more responsibilities than ever before, and they must fulfill them with smaller budgets and shorter schedules. As a result, composers are increasingly becoming armies of...

Conversational in style and full of practical advice, this user-friendly book takes the reader step-by-step through the process of writing effective arrangements that will make any band sound better. Over 150 musical examples illustrate the dozens of practical tips and techniques presented. Chapters include...

A practical but scholarly guide to Japanese instruments by one of the country's leading composers. The unique sounds of the biwa, shamisen, and other traditional instruments from Japan are heard more and more often in works for the concert hall and opera house. Composing...

If you are an aspiring musician, poet, or wordsmith who has ever wanted to write a song--or if you want to write better songs--this book will lead you step by step through the songwriting process and help you to discover tricks and techniques for...

The Creative Electronic Music Producer examines the creative processes of electronic music production, from idea discovery and perception to the power of improvising, editing, effects processing, and sound design. Featuring case studies from across the globe on musical systems and workflows used in the...

Composer-arranger David Berger shares the secrets of writing vocal music that's fresh, original and memorable, distilled from a lifetime of writing for singers like Jon Hendricks and C cile McLorin Salvant, Betty Carter and Natalie Cole. Includes links to his scores and recordings of...

Capture your songs and ideas on paper with the Guitar SheetsTM Songwriting Journal. Perfect for songwriters, guitar players, and teachers Every songwriter needs to be able to keep track of their best ideas so they can revisit them, develop them, and shape them into...

All music fans harbor in their memories vivid fragments of their favorite works. The starting guitar solo of "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones, the da-da-da-DUM gesture that opens Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the lush swelling chords of a beloved movie soundtrack: hearing the briefest snippet...

(Carta Manuscript Paper). Spiral bound, 9x12, 96 pages, 12 staves, includes Music Notation guide.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 0793557658ISBN-13: 9780793557653Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.80w x 0.30d

(Manuscript Paper). 96 pages, 12 staves per page, heavy premium paper erases easily, 9 x 12, Music Notation Guide.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 0793553938ISBN-13: 9780793553938Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1987Pages: 96Format: SpiralWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 12.39h x 8.85w x 0.26d

A collection of brand-new, in-depth, and revealing conversations about songwriting with some of the world's most-noted hitmakers THE ART OF NOISE offers an unprecedented collection of insightful, of-the-moment conversations with twenty-seven of the great songwriters. They discuss everything from their individual approaches to writing,...

Alexander Publishing's How Ravel Orchestrated: Mother Goose Suite is a breakthrough in orchestration instruction with its newly engraved score with piano part at page bottom, the original short stories that Ravel based the work on, and a complete analysis of each movement, combined together,...

By popular request, here are world-famous works from the Bossa Nova's greatest master, played with exceptional taste and sensitivity in an authentic, relaxed style with a nylon string acoustic guitar rhythm section. For bossa novas with a discreet jazz" flavor, check out Volume 31:...

Musical composition is a key discipline in music programs in conservatories, colleges, and universities. Many teachers consider it as important in the development of young musicians as listening and performance. It can be argued that through compositions musicians achieve the deepest insight into the...

What makes music sound happy? What makes it sound sad? Tense? Relaxed? Beautiful? Powerful? Scary? Nostalgic? We will seek to answer the fundamental question: What makes music sound the way it sounds? The more deeply we can answer this question, on both logical and...

Embrace Your Inner ArtistDo you struggle writing songs? Have you ever tried learning music theory but found it hard or thought that it wasn't necessary? If you are finding that you are writing songs, and whilst they sound good, there is something missing then...

Stuck? Blocked? Short of inspiration?Don't be - get writing instead.The Ultimate Book of Song Starters is the game-changing compilation of 501 powerful, creative and varied ideas for writing new songs in any genre or style.The starters include song prompt-style idea starters to get you...

Do you wish to become a composer of music? Are you a trained classical musician, but having difficulties to compose your own stuff? Or are you interested in making music, and do not really know where to start? If this is your story, A...

Professional Orchestration 2B, Orchestrating the Melody Within the Woodwinds and Brass, completes the second volume in the Professional Orchestration Series, and continues Alexander Publishing's historic breakthrough in orchestration instruction. Volume 2B details, for the first time, dozens of woodwind and brass writing techniques previously...

(Piano Large Works). From the Southland is the only work for solo piano by African-American composer Harry T. Burleigh. "On Bended Knees" was included in the historic 1912 Clef Club concert of black music at Carnegie Hall. Contents: Through Moanin' Pines * The Frolic...

Zarlino's Le Istitutioni harmoniche, published in 1558, is one of the most influential music treatises of all time. To his contemporaries it revealed the secrets of composition he had learned from Adrian Willaert, who brought to Italy the polyphonic art of the Netherlands. To...

Doing Research in Sound Design gathers chapters on the wide range of research methodologies used in sound design. Editor Michael Filimowicz and a diverse group of contributors provide an overview of cross-disciplinary inquiry into sound design that transcends discursive and practical divides. The book...

(Willis). Designed for budding songwriters of any age, this workbook requires only a minimal knowledge of the piano. Written so it is easy to use with or without a teacher, singer/songwriter Allison James carefully guides the beginning songwriter through the process of writing a...

Learn to Produce EDM Like a Pro & Take Your Music To A Whole New Level Why do some producers make great music after just one year, while others still sound average?The answer? It's how they learn and practice. The most successful EDM producers...

Interactive Composition empowers readers with all of the practical skills and insights they need to compose and perform electronic popular music in a variety of popular styles. The book begins by introducing all of the tools involved in creating interactive compositions through the software...

INCLUDES: free life-time access to on-line quizzes and assignments for each lesson. Learn the fundamentals of four-part writing in this, the latest book in a series of books on music by award-winning composer, Jonathan Peters. A great way to begin learning the fundamentals of...

(Instructional). Instrumental Jazz Arranging consists of a systematic presentation of the essential techniques and materials of jazz arranging. Authors Mike Tomaro and John Wilson draw upon 50+ years of combined teaching experience to bring you a book that addresses all of the basic needs...